Opinion: Obama’s Slippery Slope of Support

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... I ... I ... I ... the one ... on the go to billion ... it seems everything into its right to pass ... obviously it did in ... Palmerston North your efforts that I get back ... into the sequester cuts ... predictability is threatened and it held that got money to Democrats in the House voted yes ... so what question do is ... you still have to choose to get the rest of your agenda ... on ... which of them ... but that doesn't ... govern all ... good afternoon and welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... maybe I should just pack up and go home while ... President Obama has taken his share of political once already in his second term ... how this is performance affected his popularity ... pollster Scott Rasmussen is here I Scott ... What's ... look at some numbers here on ... I is strong approval and strong disapproval ... ratings is it normal ... for second term presidents to have a forty percent ... strongly disapprove reading will that's not what's really want to be George ... Bush went there before and present Obama was there for much of his first term factors are real similarity between the patterns of the two presidents ... in the summer of two thousand twelve ... Brock Obama was in the high forties in his job approval rating for George Bush was in two thousand for ... both men got little better is the got to Election Day both had a nice post election bounce ... and then the numbers began to slip the rights of acetic coming out of hiding picture of the first a ramp up towards the second they fall off a cliff focus ... on what was talk specifically about the factors that you think are influencing this trend with this person ... aam what star with the gun control is that didn't have any meaningful effect on his numbers ... it didn't help that he couldn't get anything done that made him look weak in him and all that's why he had to say you know I'm still here um ... but ... the country's divided on the issue gun control forty nine percent think we need stricter laws slightly fewer number say we don't ... the president basically didn't have was an impact on my blog in control because his supporters want more gun control his opponents ... well exactly right so that people who booed and we're going to vote Republican no we're not for gun control and to deadly effect an ok that's fine ... um ... but the sequester was really the first big and that they taught by God and saying look it's a creative crisis in the crisis never happened ... in so many missed ration care to manufacture the crisis with this FAI air traffic control for a while but clearly not help ... not a winning is not a winning strategy no partly be juicy one over the top in explaining what he thought the disaster would be ... on the right now went to one margin people say the problem the sequester was that in putting up ... on most Americans recognize that federal spending is still going up the sheer ... what is much is it would have ... been so the sequester ... storyline was banned for the president a lot of perspective I think the biggest challenge was ... it showed how he Mishra and what happened on election day last November ... he was an fir route were talk about fairness in the need to tax upper income Americans a little bit more ... he was very shaky ground we say we we don't have a spending problem I think we've actually a chart of ... that index only if you can just to ... take this through it what what exactly does it mean ... when a pollster asked to vote or ... do you approve or disapprove why is this meaningful hold this is the strongly approve and strongly disapprove that number ... and the reason is so significant is ... most voters don't have passion enough about a Kennedy or present to go talk to friends about those who have strong feelings do ... when present Obama was first elected back in January two thousand under the law really enthusiastic support ... by two thousand ten elections there was passion opposition that's what led to the high turnout for Republicans ... if the president is still having very high strong disapproval numbers at this time in two thousand fourteen ... Democrats will be distancing them from ... this system cells from him for more than they are eager to know when to talk about that twenty fourteen in the Senate and the first I wonder if you could look ... a little bit more into the short-term Peter with the ObamaCare implementation ... of a lot of people Washington are talking about this coming train wreck ... I has Rasmussen polling done ... any now running the numbers on it what how people feel that Obamacare today it weep on this all the time right now both forty three percent of American voters have a favorable opinion of the ... of ... the which isn't great ... sky where it's been for a long time Democrats in younger people like it ... Republicans unaffiliated so older people dislike it ... seniors a course care about a lot more because when you're nineteen you think you're gonna live forever you don't worry about going the doctor all that much ... when you're in your sixties is almost a daily part of life so there's that tiny integral heard the president ... the other thing that we see Mary really simple ... the last few years all on top of the president's health care law ... has been theory politics ... of ... the implementation will make Israel in people's lives I think that's where her to present a way that ... few people talked about ... when something bad happens ... on a doctor's visit people were going to blame the health care law whether it was to play him or not ... and that's going to have a very negative impact on contraception so for the president will just blame Republican obstruction the reason that he's done it that Republicans or are in danger of over playing shows like the present overplayed the sequester ... of most Americans are going to see changes in health care forty percent authority said that their employer shifting thing so there's a there's a reality there ... but most Americans are still to go to the doctor that still gonna have procedures they need they're not can see the bills themselves ... so ... some other disasters are being cited by Republicans may seem is is off the mark as the presence comments before ...